While some specifics have changed, the decades-long pattern remains: Well being in Dallas looks vastly different depending on where people live.
In Dallas County, COVID rose to become the third-most common cause of death. Alzheimer’s and diabetes fatalities are also on the rise.
Disease isn’t the only factor that influences a community’s overall health. Other elements, such as poverty, education, housing and employment, can also determine how healthy — or unhealthy — a neighborhood’s residents are. In the southern half of Dallas County, the farther residents are from downtown, the farther they are from food. The areas highlighted in the food access map show the overlap of neighborhoods with higher unemployment rates and less access to food.
That trajectory shifted, however, between 2020 and 2021 as more people were able to enroll in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Plan under the COVID-19 public health emergency. The emergency declaration is set to end in April, which could spell trouble for as many as 1.3 million Texans who could become ineligible for the federal insurance program.
Non-Hispanic Black Dallas County residents were more likely to die from heart disease and cancer than any other race or ethnic group, while Hispanic residents were more likely to die from COVID-19. The only disease non-Hispanic white residents were more likely to die from than other race and ethnic groups was Alzheimer’s, although Black residents died from the disease at about the same rate.
Alzheimer’s is a progressive disease that destroys memory, thinking and behavior and has no cure. It becomes more common with age and, as the older adult population continues to grow, so will the number of patients with Alzheimer’s. More than 10% of Dallas County’s population is 65 or older, and that number will rise in the next 40 years.
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